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Network facsimile apparatus and transmission method

EP 1024651 B1 · Applicant: MATSUSHITA GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INC.

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  • Filed May 21, 1999 and granted May 29, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 21, 2019.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by November 21, 2024.
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FiledMay 21, 1999
PublishedAugust 2, 2000
GrantedMay 29, 2002
Term endedMay 21, 2019
Application numberEP 99110022
Classification (CPC)H04N1/00204

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